Verily on Economics (WARNING: Long)

[MaC]

Some I like, some I don't like.

1.You are right in that our country can no longer support a manufacturing-industrial economy and that it needs to move to a info/service economy.  However, one of the main reasons why my state (and I'm sure others) lag is because unions and other stagnation advocates think that auto-industry jobs should maintain as a large part of the economy.  Despite this will loose many jobs, the long-run interests of growth are more important than greedy union leaders keeping the economy down.  If not under such heavy control by unions, the auto industry's control would diminish and people would find better jobs under the service/info industry.  However, Michigan's current economy is stagnant because of the political influence of stagnation.

2. I would say more important than property tax influencing educational standards, and more important than a voucher system, it is more important to have (if a public education system must exist) an equal distribution of money-and I do mean in a progressive way (as much as I grit my teeth to say it) only because richer school districts already have excessive utilities and many low income districts cannot even pay for basic teaching supplies.  After this inequality is solved-then we would have to immediately go back to equal funding.

3.The problem of health is based more on fixing health once it's bad, rather than keeping it from getting bad.  Provided that the 60% of the FDA is funded by perscription drug companies to pass medicines through, and the FDA wouldn't allow into the market other medicines that don't have lobbyists working for them, the health needs of our country are not met with any type of integrity.  This needs to stop.  What else needs to stop is the subsidies paid to factory farms to produce hormone-fed animals and poisonous fertilizer given to plants.  This will in the short run make food cost more, but compared to current health costs, prevention is absolutely key.  Also, stop funding food made from High Fructose Corn Syrup.  It tastes like crap, and sugar is equally as cheap.

4.I like the idea of ending social security.  It's likely tangible to do if the government were to privatize more industires-and the money that it would save would go towards filling the social secuirty gaps.  Cut off everyone under 35 years of age and end the program.

5.I would support the use of tariffs under the following circumstances
-tarriffs have short time periods so as not to continuously harm any particular industry
-tarriffs are assigned randomly
-tarriffs should never be used for revenge
-cut down as much as humanly possible the political assignments to the tarriffs imposed (I understand this is nearly impossible, hence the first three statements)